Sales Compensation Design Manager

At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the business needs of the team.   

As a Sales Compensation and Seller Incentive Design Lead within the Go-to-Market Operations team you guide compensation strategy for the LinkedIn Marketing Solution business unit focusing on opportunities that support the go-to-market strategy. You will coordinate and optimize sales compensation programs collaborating with leaders in Sales Global Compensation HR Operations Finance and Policy to develop effective competitive and compliant structures and incentives and operationalize them. 

The ideal candidate uses data and has deep experience in incentive and compensation design offering strategic guidance analyzing results and resolving business challenges. They can toggle between strategy and execution and have a good understanding of end-to-end compensation operations including tracking quota allocation and crediting. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead global sales compensation strategy and operations for LMS in partnership with Global Compensation delivering a consolidated perspective on plan design annual and midyear planning pilots and SPIFFs to support LMS business priorities 
• Apply strong commercial and financial acumen to evaluate the impact of compensation decisions on performance cost and behavior 
• Partner with Sales Leadership Sales Operations Finance HR and GSC Policy teammates to understand business needs identify challenges and deliver datadriven compensation solutions 
• Translate complex compensation concepts into clear compelling insights and recommendations for senior technical and nontechnical stakeholders 
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on compensation strategy and best practices. 
• Collaborate with the Global Sales Design Team on the annual design and planning calendar ensuring alignment across Systems Operations and Reporting teams. 
• Assess change impacts and partner with Enablement to develop content to ensure stakeholder readiness and adoption. 
• Ensure incentive compensation programs comply with internal policies regulatory requirements labor laws and financial reporting standards. 
• Maintain deep working knowledge systems tools and operational processes to support end-to-end toend program execution drive scale and efficiencies. 
• Analyze current state and futurestate compensation programs (design policy governance enablement) to drive coordinated improvements track outcomes and measure impact. 
• Drive continuous improvement across compensation analytics processes and tools. 

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5 years of experience in Sales Compensation design roles including incentive compensation plan design and operations or equivalent roles. 
• BA/BS degree 
• 3 years of experience in sales compensation strategy and incentive plan modeling with strong program management stakeholder partnership and data analysis skillsincluding identifying trends in large complex datasets and communicating insights crossfunctionally. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with consumption-based compensation models within digital advertising or technology sectors. 
• Ability to strongly collaborate and positively influence cross-functional leaders and stakeholders involved in the incentive compensation management process including Sales Leadership Sales Operations Systems Engineering Human Resources Policy and Enablement.  
• Demonstrated experience with change management in a fast-paced technologycentric organization. 
• Self-starter with a proactive get things done mentality and systems-level thinking. 
• Ability to logically and efficiently structure solutions to ambiguous problems conduct impact analysis identify key insights and recommend an action plan. 
• Ability to lean in and partner with all business levels to make decisions and deliver solutions that meet desired outcomes. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools including Power BI Excel PowerPoint. 
• SQL Python or other data querying languages. 
• Leveraging and building with AI. 
• Robust planning and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple deliverables to tight timelines management skills with the ability to manage multiple deliverables to tight timelines. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

Suggested Skills:  

• Strategic Thinking 
• Decision-Making 
• Innovation & Project Management 
• Financial Acumen 
• Stakeholder Management & Trusted Advisor 

The range of expected compensation for this position is CAD $173650 to $216200 which includes potential compensation under non-discretionary annual performance bonus and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location and may be subject to the terms and conditions of various applicable plans and policies. Actual compensation packages may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.  

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